New York Times Doxxes Source By Publishing Passport Number

Clarke, J. (1665) "Proverbs English and Latine"

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16609781

Reality Winner's situation, where they gave the actual printout she gave them to the feds and it had secret codes embedded in it to identify when/where printed (a long standing thing in printers, in case you didn't know) completely violated her trust with the reporters.

There was also the situation where the NYT reporter got docs from a leaker about Les Moonves' sexual harassement case. The reporter put in stupid info that outed the lawyer, that was on the line of "the docs has 57 pages" and a couple of other very specific things.

There needs to be some kind of education system for reporters that helps them stop outing sources. We are of course served by extreme misdeeds being exposed in the press, whether it gores your own ox or someone else's. But reporters have to stop doing this. Don't publish and actual photo, please re-encode it, remove metadata, do it twice, try to test it yourselves to find something. Don't put numbers. Don't use exact phrasing. When big companies like microsoft try to find leakers, they have software that slightly changes the phrasing in their big company missives, I was told this by a microsoft exec once.

“Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent to do so.”